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    32. Women's activism in Latin America and the Caribbean: engendering social justice, democratizing citizenship

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Maier,Elizabeth (Author) and Lebon,Nathalie (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    375 p, Contributors explore the emergence of the area’s feminist movement, dictatorships of the 1970s, the Central American uprisings, the urban, grassroots organizing for better living conditions, and finally, the turn toward public policy and formal political involvement and the alternative globalization movement. Includes Helen Safa's "Female-headed households and poverty in Latin America : a comparison of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic ";